Disclaimer: I still don't own "The Cat and the Hat" or Inuyasha. I'm

a minor, so I don't think I can really technically own anything yet,

or likewise be sued! Cool! So instead of just saying I own Inuyasha,

I can say I own… Rumiko herself! Bwahahaha! Now she can write all of

my fics for me! Okay, just kidding…whatever. On with the fic

containing characters that I don't own! Yay.

(A/n: Key at bottom for the literal translations of the spells that

Miroku and Kagome use! Thanks!"

Naosu Kokan

The sky rippled above their heads and the barriers of the demon soon

became apparent to reach over a diameter of about a quarter of a

mile.

"That is one big-assed demon" Sango commented before taking out her

boomerang and transforming from

a beautiful woman into a deadly demon slayer.

"Kirara!" Sango yelled and she leapt aboard her also transformed

kitten. Miroku and Kagome weren't going to just sit back and watch,

no sir, these two mere mortals each possessed more than mere mortal

powers. Which was always definitely helpful in a demonic fight.

"Ofuda!" Miroku yelled as he slipped out a demon-fighting scroll from

his leather pouch and threw it at the demon. At the same time Kagome

drew back an arrow and aimed high at the sky. All three weapons:

Sango's boomerang, Miroku's scroll, and Kagome's blessed arrow all

hit the sky at once. The sky shattered, like it was metal hitting

glass; leaving the core of the demon, hanging suspended in the sky

above them. It appeared like the sun, but became darker in its

angered state. The rays from the sun licked angrily and sizzled the

air around it. The rays became more and more visible and less and

less like the real sun's that was just peaking over the horizon

behind the demon.

"DON'T BOTHER WITH THE SKY," the demon laughed softly "IT'S ONLY AN

ILLUSION OF MINE. THE REAL FIGHT, YOU HAVE WITH ME."

"Demon! What business do you have leading us off of our path?" Kagome

asked "I mean, what the heck do you have against us, or where we're

going?"

"THAT'S NONE OF YOUR CONCERN!" he yelled, and threw himself at

Inuyasha!

"Inuyasha!" Kagome yelled in warning. Inuyasha looked up (from

probably looking at Sango and Kirara, he'd never seen a woman fight

like that before.) just in time to barely dodge the demon. His hair

sizzled and scorched at the ends and the smell of burnt hair filled

his nose. Inuyasha jumped at the demon and swiped with his claws, but

it was like a ball of fire. The flesh around his claws and all over

his hand began to melt, sizzle and char.

"Huh?" He looked at his hand in confusion. This hadn't seemed like a

particularly strong demon, but impossible to hit.

"Inuyasha, you dumbass," Kagome yelled "use Tetsusaiga!"

"Oh yeah…" Inuyasha blushed slightly and drew his sword. "Burn this,

bastard!" He yelled as he caught the wind on the blade and swung the

sword as hard as he could. The cutting wind passed through the top

half of the gaseous demon and it belched out a hardy laugh.

"IF YOU'RE CLAWS DIDN'T WORK EITHER, HANYOU, WHY DID YOU THINK THAT

YOU'RE RUSTED SWORD WOULD DO ANY BETTER?" the demon laughed again.

"Oh no…" Kagome said, feeling helpless. What were they supposed to

do? She didn't know, but there was no way she was going to sit around

and watch Inu get burnt to a crisp! "Shinsei Makimono!" Kagome yelled

as she jumped through the air and hurled the 'sacred scroll' at the

opposing demon. The scroll flew in its direction, but the demon

dodged it easily. "Damn," Kagome cursed, "I was too far away!" But

now she had found the demon's weakness! "Shippou! Become a bush and

hide me until we get closer to the demon!" Kagome grabbed the kitsune

and pleaded. "The kitsune complied and they crept towards the demon.

It was a good thing no one else seemed to notice…

"Okay! Let's fight fire with fire! Kirara!" Kirara let out a roar and

shot flame at the sun demon from her mouth. The demon just laughed

and absorbed the flames. "Dammit!" Sango yelled in frustration.

Wasn't there anything that was going to kill this demon? Meanwhile,

Inuyasha kept on at trying to cut it to pieces with his Tetsusaiga.

It wasn't working.

"Take that, bitch!" obviously he wasn't sure whether this thing was a

boy or a girl. All he knew was that it was pissing him off.

"ALL RIGHT, I THINK WE'VE HAD ENOUGH PLAY TIME. NOW IT'S TIME TO

FIGHT." The sun belched out. Suddenly, one of the rays of sun

extended and formed into a flaming sword, but without a handle. Its

base just melted into the other rays. It shot out and pierced

Inuyasha in the chest. Inuyasha could hear it rip first his kimono,

then his skin. The bone of his sternum made two sickening cracks as

the sharp fire shot through his chest. Once through, the sword

started to sizzle his skin and lung; the blood stopped flowing so

freely down his kimono as suddenly as it started. Inuyasha looked

down at it dumbly. Nothing had ever done something like this to him

before…

"It's killing him!" Miroku yelled.

"Inuyasha!" Kagome gasped. She knew what she had to do during this

little distraction, and had already started tying the scroll to one

of her arrows. She pulled back the sword and let it fly: strait

towards the center of the demon. "Please work, please work, please

work…" Kagome prayed. No demon could touch that sacred scroll and

live. Thank god she was a Priestess. The arrow flew through the first

half of the demon, but seemed to get lodged in the second half. The

red gaseous part of the demon seemed to disappear and black ball fell

out from the center and hit the ground about a hundred feet from

Kagome with a thud. Inuyasha fell down to the ground and lay there,

eyes closed.

"Inuyasha!" everyone yelled at once. They all ran up to him and

Kagome and Miroku fell to their knees and started taking off the top

of his Kimono. His breath was slow, haggard, and irregular.

"It looks pretty bad," Miroku stated solemnly "but I learned some

healing from my old monk teacher. Sango, I need you to find the

nearest stream and take us there."

"Right on it!" Sango and Kirara jumped to the sky and were soon out

of site looking for the stream. But Kagome was wasting no time in

healing Inuyasha. She pulled a scroll out of her leather pouch and

laid it on the wound between her hand and his chest. "Naosu kokan"

Kagome closed her eyes and felt the heat travel down her arm.

"What's she doing?" Shippou asked. Miroku looked up from what he was

doing with some nearby healing roots and such to see Kagome start to

glow with a strange aura. Miroku realized what she was doing and

tried to push her away. A great energy threw him back against a tree,

and he decided that it was best for him not to interfere.

"I think she's trying to heal him." Miroku answered solemnly. Shippou

gaped and watched as Kagome started to glow brighter.

Kagome kept her focus on healing. Inuyasha's body become warm under

the scroll; she could feel the wound start to shrink and the blood

start to flow again. The scroll and her hand were quickly covered in

blood. Inuyasha's breaths became more regular and less haggard. Her

own, conversely, became worse as she and the scroll took on part of

Inuyasha's injuries. She gave all of the burning to the scroll and

the scroll incinerated before she could take on even a third of the

other injuries. Her own blood started to seep through her kimono and

she fell on top of Inuyasha. Miroku decided that it was probably safe

now and ran over to help. Kagome and Inuyasha were both only barely

unconscious, so he laid Kagome out flat next to Inuyasha. Sango

returned and told Miroku that there was a stream just north of there.

"How far?" he asked. Sango looked down at the two bleeding people and

said,

"Oh, about a mile. And didn't I leave you with one beaten and

bloodied person? Cause' I see two here buster."

"Oh, just shut up and help me get them on Kirara." Miroku snipped. He

wasn't in the mood. The three healthy people lugged the unconscious

onto Kirara. They started walking north, nobody wanted to talk

because they were worried about Kagome and Inuyasha. After a little

while though, Shippou spoke up.

"Do you think they're going to be alright?" Shippou asked. A worried

look scrunched his face up and his voice squeaked slightly.

"Yeah, they should be up and at 'em in a week or so." Sango tried to

sound cheery about it, but in truth she was very worried about the

Jewel. Would Sesshoumaru have found it by then? There was no way to

tell, but she didn't write off the youkai as any kind of fool,

either.

"I guess we can only hope that Hojo knows to keep his mouth shut for

a very long time." Miroku said darkly. Sango guessed that he had been

thinking along the same lines as she had. Sango laughed.

"He'd do anything to protect the Jewel, you know that Miroku."

"More like protect the Priestess." Miroku laughed.

"I'll bet he's smarter than we give him credit for." Shippou

commented off-handedly. Sango and Miroku looked at him. "Wha-at?" he

whined. Wasn't he allowed to defend Kagome's cousin? Sheesh…

"Don't do that again." Sango said, looking away.

"Yeah," Miroku agreed "you're too young to be that mature about

this."

"Way too young." Sang agreed, looking at Miroku. Miroku looked at her

and smiled, she smiled back.

"You guys are too weird…" the kitsune shook his head. Kirara snorted

her agreement.

"Just one question you guys." Shippou raised an eyebrow.

"What?" Sango looked at him and raised her own.

"If we were walking the wrong way for at least two days," he looked

frustratedly at each of the idiots "then where the hell are we?"

"Shut up." Miroku and Sango said in unison. Damn that kitsune could

get annoying, but where WERE they?

A/n: Dun-dun-dun! Okay, that wasn't really a cliffhanger, so sue me.

Although, as you can see from the top, you can't! Bwahahahahaha!

Any-who, I'd like to dedicate this chapter to my reviewers, who were

supportive of my story thus far: Hieis2dreamer for giving my

one-chapter fic a chance and continuing to review and prod me to

write more; Kagomebunny for being nice and reviewing my story to tell

me to write more; for Raku Ozzarian princess for taking the time to

read and review my fic; and narcoleptic shiskabob who helped me with

great long reviews that made me laugh, adding me to her fav. authors

list, and for helping me with other story-related stuff. I couldn't

have even gotten this far w/out you guys! Keep up the good reviews

and I promise I'll finish this one good (I know it's supposed to be

"well" but who really cares?)! I love you guys and e-mail me if you

have any suggestions! Thanks!

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mumu

Key

Ofuda: the scroll Miroku uses in the manga

Naosu kokan: "healing exchange"

Shinsei Makimono: Literally translates to "Sacred Scroll"